HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!!!🎉💐🥰 Today's post comes to you inspired by @basmakhalifa post about her grandmother, Aziza Saad-al-din Yasin. I wanted to share a bit about my maternal grandmother, Mildred Florence Matthews. This image features my grandmother holding my mother, Heather Racine. My grandmother, Mildred Florence Matthews was born on March 6, 1917 to her parents, Tracy John Matthews and Maude Jasper. At the age of 22 on September 23, 1939, she married my grandfather, Leonard Leo Stewart. They had 6 children, 5 girls and 1 boy. My mother being their 4th child. My grandmother was a talented needleworker, working for part of her life in the Peerless Lamp Company in Philadelphia, Pa making fabric shades for lamps. She also created many items of clothing for her family and home accessories as well. Her love and knowledge of needlework was inherited from her mother, Maude Jasper. This needlework knowledge passed to my mother, who passed on the knowledge of sewing, crochet, and other fiber arts to me. I feel incredibly blessed to have inherited their love of creating with needle and thread. My grandmother was a loving daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother to us all. She passed away on November 9, 2001 at 84 years old. Her legacy of creativity, ingenuity, and needlework lives on in her children and grandchildren. . . . For every grandmother post on IG, using the hashtag #mygrandmamyicon 1€ is donated to CARE, a poverty-fighting organization that has a specific focus on women and girls. . . . #blackmaterialculture #blackhistory365 #blackgirlsstitch #blackwomenshistory #internationalwomensday https://www.instagram.com/p/CMKzGGVH2HC/?igshid=1x0k3mn517y5e
